Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986) was an American actor, singer, dancer and musician known for his work as Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and as Dick Hallorann in The Shining in 1980. He was also a prolific voiceover artist, and provided the voices of Meadowlark Lemon in the animated TV version of The Harlem Globetrotters, Jazz the Autobot in The Transformers, the title character in Hong Kong Phooey, and Scat Cat in the 1970 film The Aristocats.
as Self (archive footage)
as Jazz (archive audio)
as (voice) (archive footage)
as Jukebox (voice)
as Jazz (voice)
as Jazz (voice)
as Sherman
as Eugene the Genie (voice)(21 eps)
as Jazz (voice)(92 eps)
as Earl
as Self(1 ep)
as Mr. Bloom
as Self - Sketch Performer
as Sam(5 eps)
as Mose Wheeler
as George Faskins
as Self(1 ep)
as Garland Fisk(1 ep)
as Dexter Jones
as Parking Attendant
as Bernard Soloman(13 eps)
as Parking Attendant(1 ep)
as Dewey Stevens
as Tickler(1 ep)
as Self
as Nate (voice)
as Doc Lynch
as Hallorann
as Sam
as Crazy Legs (voice)
as Nate Branch / Liquid Man (voice)(13 eps)
as (voice)(1 ep)
as Walt(1 ep)
as Tinker
as Mudcat
as Virgil Gibson(1 ep)
as Hong Kong Phooey (voice)(94 eps)
as Mingo(1 ep)
as Ralston
as Ben Benson
as Moses
as William
as Self
as Reverend Noble Franklin
as Orderly Turkle
as Pappy / Old Man Bone (voice)
as Ruben Hammer
as Fisherman
as Super Black
as Attendant
as Louie(88 eps)
as Uncle Filemon(1 ep)
as Hong Kong Phooey (voice)(31 eps)
as Duke
as Doc
as Pop Byrd
as Gaylord Fuller(1 ep)
as Joe Rawls(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as (voices)
as Cleveland
as Reverend Markham
as Lewis
as Big Ben
as Meadowlark Lemon (voice)(3 eps)
as Singer
as Smoke
as Floyd(1 ep)
as Jack(1 ep)
as Scat Cat (voice)
as Carnival Barker (uncredited)
as Blind Man(1 ep)
as Moses
as Mr. Jones (Porter) (uncredited)
as One-Man Band(1 ep)
as The Corpse (uncredited)
as George Strothers(1 ep)
as Jason(1 ep)
as Handler(1 ep)
as Shoeshine Boy
as Mr. Paul's Assistant (uncredited)
as Self(5 eps)
as Self(2 eps)
as Musinga
as Tyana
as Tyana (as Sherman Crothers)
as Train Attendant (uncredited)(1 ep)
as Joe(1 ep)
as Jud(1 ep)
as Crabman
as Railroad Porter (uncredited)
as George (uncredited)
as Timothy(1 ep)
as Himself
as Smiley
as Baltimore (as Scat Man Crothers)
as Enoch Jones
as Scatman
as Johnson(1 ep)
as Self(8 eps)